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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • The biggest issue with No King’s, at least out of my perspective is that it is only centered around Trump and his cronies, and doesn’t actually target the system that keeps churning out people like Trump, produces them and puts them into power. Americans believe that Trump happened to them like a natural disaster would, and that they were sadly just ill prepared. They fail to see and correctly point out that the system thrives on people like Trump and actively pursues putting them into positions of power. Until that isn’t addressed, these protests will bring about no material change.











  • Yeah. They’re settlers. That’s what I was pointing out. This has nothing to do with antisemitism. And there’s a discussion to be had about settlers, repaying their debt to the people they’ve wronged and colonized over decades, and so on and so forth. I come from jewish descent myself. I have no connection to Palestine. Jewish Israelis from Europe are settlers, despite their claims of having a connection to the land, in contrast to jewish Israelis originally from Palestine. This is the difference I’m trying to point out. This doesn’t mean that I support the mass expulsion of any people. But again, this is a nationalist issue not “antisemitism”. Not that nationalism is okay anyway. Just stop watering down the meaning of antisemitism just because it doesn’t fit into Israel’s whims.




  • While it is a lunatic statement, it isn’t antisemitic. It’s only antisemitic if it applies to jewish Palestinians that have a connection to the land. The jewish Israelis of European descent aren’t connected to the land. Thus, this isn’t antisemitic. But I do agree that it is a lunatic statement anyway.

    EDIT: What I’m trying to say is that this is a nationalist stance not an antisemitic one. Those expecting all Israelis to leave like that aren’t doing so because they’re jews but because they’re settlers. This is however, if you lack the reading comprehension, a position I haven’t even claimed to support, but on the contrary, I even condemned it. What I am doing here is pointing out that not everything that relates to Israel has to boil down to antisemitism. That’s a braindead position





  • I grew up in a conservative, right-wing, rural environment, and have moved slowly from being moderately right-wing in school, to a neoliberal in college, to a socdem, a socialist, and eventually marxist leninist after college. I am quite comfortable with where I’m at right now. I am willing to continue learning, and I have learned quite a lot over the years. I read a fair amount on all of my prior political convictions, and I don’t shy away from discussing everything I stand for.